Early Indo-European Texts

Ancient Sanskrit

Karen Thomson and Jonathan Slocum

This page contains a text in Ancient Sanskrit with a modern English translation.
This particular text and its translation are extracted from a lesson in the
Early Indo-European Online
series, where one may find detailed information about this text
(see the Table of Contents page for Ancient Sanskrit Online in
EIEOL),
and general information about the Ancient Sanskrit language and its speakers' culture.

Translation

[II,
42]

Calling out repeatedly, proclaiming his kind,
He urges his voice like an oarsman a boat.
O shakuni-bird, if you will bring us luck
Let not any prying light anywhere find you.

Let the eagle not slay you, not the fine-feathered one,
Nor the man bearing arrows, the hunter, find you.
Calling out repeatedly in the direction of the fathers
Bringing luck, speaking good fortune, speak down to us.

Call down from the right side of the houses
Bringing luck, speaking good fortune, dear shakuni-bird;
Let the thief not triumph over us, nor the impious man,
May we, good men, in wisdom speak out loud.

[X,
58]

When your spirit goes
Far away, to Yama son of Vivasvant;
Then we turn it back to you,
Here to dwell, to live.

When your spirit goes
Far way, to the sky, to the earth;
Then we turn it back to you,
Here to dwell, to live.

When your spirit goes
Far away, to the four-cornered land;
Then we turn it back to you,
Here to dwell, to live.

When your spirit goes
Far away, in the four directions;
Then we turn it back to you,
Here to dwell, to live.

When your spirit goes
Far away, to the foaming sea;
Then we turn it back to you,
Here to dwell, to live.

When your spirit goes
Far away, to the gleaming lights of the distant slope;
Then we turn it back to you,
Here to dwell, to live.

When your spirit goes
Far away, to the waters, the plants;
Then we turn it back to you,
Here to dwell, to live.

When your spirit goes
Far away, to the sun, to the dawn;
Then we turn it back to you,
Here to dwell, to live.

When your spirit goes
Far away, to the lofty mountains;
Then we turn it back to you,
Here to dwell, to live.

When your spirit goes
Far away, to all this world;
Then we turn it back to you,
Here to dwell, to live.

When your spirit goes
Far away, to still farther distances;
Then we turn it back to you,
Here to dwell, to live.

When your spirit goes
Far away, to what has been and what is to be;
Then we turn it back to you,
Here to dwell, to live.